Citigroup’s top M&A banker in Europe, and one of the few women to occupy such a senior role in the City, is leaving the Wall Street bank. Alison Harding-Jones, head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa and vice-chair of its banking, capital markets and advisory unit, has stepped down, according to an … Read more
Nicolas Mackel is the CEO of Luxembourg for Finance, the development body for the country’s financial centre As we mark the first anniversary of the Ukraine war, it is important to reflect on the suffering this war of aggression has wrought on our Ukrainian friends, and the inspiring courage they have shown. Beyond the destruction and … Read more
Like most of its peers, T Rowe Price had a rough 2022. The Baltimore-headquartered asset manager ended the year with assets down almost 25%. Financial News spoke with Robert Higginbotham, head of global distribution and the firm’s most senior executive in Europe, about some of last year’s challenges, plans to grow outside the US, and how … Read more
HSBC’s pay gap for female and Black employees in the UK increased last year, despite a focus on recruiting more senior staff. The UK lender’s average gender pay gap for UK employees in 2022 was 45.2%, according to figures in its annual report, up from 44.9% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the pay differential for Black employees … Read more
The City’s top Black professionals and rising stars were honoured at a celebration of business talent on 29 September. In an awards ceremony that drew a crowd of nearly 500 at the Leonardo Royal Hotel, St Paul’s, organisers of the ninth annual Black British Business Awards recognised the top professionals who had overcome challenges to reach … Read more
Credit Suisse could split its struggling investment bank into three parts, a move that would involve thousands of job cuts as the Swiss bank reshapes its business. The bank has drawn up plans to split its beleaguered investment banking unit, including creating a so-called ‘bad bank’ to hive off unwanted assets, the Financial Times reported … Read more
Funds investing in the metaverse are now managing more than $2bn globally, as a flurry of launches from some of Europe’s biggest asset managers look to take advantage of a hot investment trend. Data from Morningstar, provided to Financial News, shows a sharp increase in assets managed by funds focused on immersive virtual worlds, as well as in the … Read more
New chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is drawing up plans to ditch the UK banker bonus cap as part of plans for a ‘Big Bang 2.0’ to reinvigorate the City after Brexit. The timing could be better. The British public has barely forgiven bankers for the 2008 financial crisis, and dangling bigger banker bonuses during a cost-of-living crisis … Read more
In a return to pre-pandemic practice of hiving off low-performing staffers from the bank, Goldman Sachs is set for a round of job cuts. The US investment bank is set to axe jobs in plans that could trigger the earliest layoffs as soon as next week, The New York Times reported, according to people familiar with the … Read more
Ever since the global financial crisis, City bosses have complained that politicians don’t give financial services enough love. The attitude to one of the UK’s few world-leading industries has been at best lukewarm, they moaned. Well, they can hardly lay that charge against the new prime minister. Liz Truss is surely the only world leader who … Read more